“The Hour will not come to pass before the water of the EUPHRATES STOPS TO UNVEIL THE A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD, for which peopleWILL FIGHT. NINETY-NINE OUT OF ONE HUNDREDWILL DIE[in the fighting], and every man among them will say: 'Perhaps I may be the only one to remain alive.'”

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

THE EUPHRATES WOULD SOON UNCOVER A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD and when the people would bear of it they would flock towards it but the people who would possess that (treasure) (would say): If we allow these persons to take out of it they would take away the whole of it. SO THEY WOULD FIGHT AND NINETY-NINE OUT OF ONE HUNDRED WOULD BE KILLED.

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

“… FOR WHICH PEOPLE WOULD FIGHT. NINETY-NINE OUT OF EACH ONE HUNDRED WOULD DIE but every man amongst them would say that perhaps he would be the one who would be saved (and thus possess this gold).”

(Sahih Muslim)

These hadith about the River Euphrates refer to the conflicts that will take place in this region in the End Times and to many people losing their lives during the course of them. The stopping of the waters of the River Euphrates is one of the portents of the coming of Hazrat Mahdi (as).

The “stopping of the water of the Euphrates,” in the words of the hadith, by dams constructed on it, and their thus being brought under control, was covered by the press using such terms as;

“THE EUPHRATES HAS BEEN STOPPED IN ITS TRACKS.”

As revealed in the hadith, this strategic situation has led to the PKK stepping up its terrorist violence. The use in the hadith of the expression “NINETY NINE PEOPLE OUT OF EACH ONE HUNDRED WOULD DIE” emphasizes that terrible slaughter will take place here.